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"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial called "Is There a Santa Claus?". The editorial appeared in The Sun on September 21, 1897, and has since become one of the most famous editorials ever published.
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"Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" is a line from an editorial which appeared in The Sun on September 21, 1897, titled: "Is There a Santa Claus?". It has since become one of the most famous editorials ever published.
Randy Kryn revised the first sentence-- I don't know if I like the switch from "it has sense become" to "became" and it feels a little run-on now-- what do you think about this change?
Honestly not sure what "christmas folklore' is, so rephrased.
vituperation page is a cross-project redirect to Wiktionary. How about linking the word directly to Wiktionary?
Done
Just a minor suggestion to right align the portrait of Francis Pharcellus Church, as him facing left distracts the reader (at-least me)
Done By Randy
"forgot about it." — shouldn't full-stop be outside the quotes?
No because per MOS:LQ, "Include terminal punctuation within the quotation marks only if it was present in the original material"-- in this case, the source has the full stop. I just checked to be sure.
s the first editorial. on December 23 — erroneous full-stop?
yes
in a TV — suggestion to write it as "television"
Sure
Why isn't "Virginia O'Hanlon" section in the "Background" section?
My thinking was that most (virtually all) of the info about her is about her life after the editorial so it would make most sense towards the end of the article. It's also somewhat unrelated so I felt like it might disrupt the flow
Overall, it requires some work on references, rest, it is an excellent article! Putting on hold. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 10:30, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thanks, @Kavyansh.Singh! Responded to all your points above. I'd really appreciate it if you wanted to review Church as well. Happy new year, Eddie891TalkWork 14:05, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
Changed my mind and added links to all notable websites
guides.loc.gov should be "Library of Congress"
Fixed
"1897 "Yes, Virginia" Santa Claus Letter" – quoted inside quoted should take single quotations
fixed
"William Conant Church (11 August 1836-23 May 1917) and Francis Pharcellus Church (22 February 1839-11 April 1906)" – there should be en-dashes to separate those dates.
changed
I see that the bit about the plaque has been re-added. The bare urls needs to be formatted.
Replaced with secondary source
@Eddie891 – That is it. I'll pass after these changes are made. Thanks! – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 14:23, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
All right then, promoting this one. – Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 15:04, 1 January 2022 (UTC)Reply
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